National Grid is hiring a Lead Engineer for our Gas Investment Planning department in Melville, NY.
Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.
To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.
To develop, create, manage and visualize asset strategies that maximize our business value while proactively managing asset risk and improving our value framework. Working with various stakeholders to create an quantitative, comprehensive asset risk approach that allocates an appropriate amount of resources to achieve organizational goals.
Key Accountabilities• Produce effective reports for use by senior leaders to help them understand the current risk exposure of our asset population and the impact of different strategies on risk over time.
• Responsible for the development, maintenance, analysis, and communication of the itemized and optimized multi-year asset strategy for multiple asset groups.
• Create What-if scenarios that allows stakeholders to compare various risk based asset strategies
• Work with business units and the Workforce Strategy area to translate long-term business objectives into well-defined resource requirements to support execution of capital and operational objectives.
• Organize and develop analysis and presentation material to communicate the plan to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support regulatory activities through the analysis of past and future investment plans.
• Monitor progress against sanctioned scope of works, costs and delivery.
• Develop, implement and manage the asset investment approval processes, systems and document management.
• Analyze key themes and cost elements from a wide range of data sources in order to identify how different scenarios may impact upon the business and facilitate improvements in planning.
Qualifications
• BS in an engineering discipline
• Minimum of 5 years in an engineering discipline
• A understanding of our Copperleaf Value Framework
• An understanding of basic utility accounting, finance, and regulatory principles. An ability to review, proofread, and tie out numerical data and analysis to a high level of accuracy and confidence. Accurate record keeping and documentation is also a must.
• Proficient in Project management and Work Management software including Microsoft Office, Excel, STORMS, Power Plant, Alteryx, Power-Bi and Copperleaf.
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Salary
$139,000 - $164,000 a year
This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Internal candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.